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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his public service McAdoo has solved some of the greatest problems which have ever faced the nation. Time has justified the wisdom and constructive character of his acts."-from a campaign pamphlet recently issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preeminence | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...matches are of the greatest importance to both teams as the outcome of the state championship is at stake. The University team has a two point lead over the Law School society. The latter must therefore win four of the five matches to move into first place. The afternoon's results will practically decide the title, for both teams play clubs at the bottom of the league the following week, which closes the tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIXON-WAKEFIELD MATCH IS SQUASH FEATURE TODAY | 1/18/1924 | See Source »

...President to consider the public interest. Public interest is not a synonym for money. It may not be defined in terms of finance. It embraces all the great public needs. It permits dealing with the conditions which exist in the nation so as to bring out of them the greatest welfare of its people. . . The transaction in suit was not one granting a subsidy to a private industry. It was a devotion in the public interest of the property to a public use. The property is available to any American citizen, copartnership or corporation that desires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Public Interest | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

Engaged. George Owen, Jr., 23, generally acknowledged to be the greatest Harvard athlete of all time, to Miss Leonora Trafford of Readville, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...Canadian home. He was caught in passage by a reporter of The New York Times, who elicited this declaration from him: "The New York Times has set a standard far ahead of that maintained by publications of a similar character in Great Britain. I regard it as the greatest newspaper in the world. If it wields a great influence at home and abroad it is perhaps because The New York Times never pontificates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Never Pontificates | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

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